CARERS SUPPORT WEST SUSSEX

Registered charity 1123359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARERS SUPPORT - WEST SUSSEX, THE CARERS SUPPORT SERVICE (NORTH & MID SUSSEX)

To deliver high quality services to carers in West Sussex by provision of information and support.To develop good working relationships with all agencies to deliver services that address the needs of carers.To involve carers with planning and delivering services.To raise awareness of carers issues and monitor implementation of all policies, legislation and guidelines that impact carers.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:-TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND MENTAL SUFFERING OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WHO ARE CARERS WHETHER ON A FULL OR PART TIME BASIS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ELDERLY, DISABLED, ILL OR FRAIL FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER AND THE RELIEF OF SUCH ELDERLY, DISABLED, ILL OR FRAIL PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL HELP AND ASSISTANCE, ADVOCACY AND INFORMATION FOR THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CARE; AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AMONGST CARERS OF ALL AGES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC CONCERNING CARING AND THE SUPPORT AND TREATMENT OF THOSE REQUIRING SUPPORT FROM CARERS

Area of benefit: CRAWLEY, HORSHAM, MID-SUSSEX AND ITS ENVIRONS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £113,422 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total unrestricted reserves of £1,056,111. The trustees report that these reserves represent approximately four months of unrestricted expenditure, which is within the stated reserves policy target of three to six months. The charity remains dependent on contract income from West Sussex County Council but has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carers Support West Sussex (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Carers Trust — “the Making Carers Count Project , funded by Carers Trust, concentrated on providing support to adult carers (aged 18+) from ethnically diver…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Beasley
• Alison Fox
• David Gayler
• Elizabeth Sawyer · trustee of 1 other charity
• IAN WILKINS
• Jane Lodge
• Joelle Mary Packham
• Lee Batchelor
• Neal Young
• Nicola Jeffery
• Paul Estep
• Robert Mansfield

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUPPORT FOR CARERS (SCARBOROUGH AND DISTRICT).

• SUPPORT FOR CARERS (SCARBOROUGH AND DISTRICT) income £86k
• ASSOCIATION OF CARERS income £375k
• CARERS UK income £4.7m
• SUTTON CARERS CENTRE CHARITY COMPANY income £733k
• SEFTON CARERS CENTRE income £2.2m
• CARE WORKERS SUPPORT income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.